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Just a thought.............On the "Home Page", replace the "Recent Threads" with " threads for new members" or name it something of your choice. Have all the Stickys on the Home Page to be read first before entering the forums. You get the idea.

When I stumbled on this place I spent a good two weeks just reading the Stickys. There is a lot of great info there. I'm glad that I took the time to read them. Though I have to be honest, there were a few I didn't make to the end of because they were so long. And now that I've got a better understanding of phrases and terms, I'll eventually go back and read them all.

Reading the Stickies is the best place to start, because for a noob, the search function can be very frustrating. You can not search for words that are less than four letters. So its hard to find the thread that you know you read somewhere in the stickies or was it a link from the sticky that talks about a set up for a ENO hammock, because you can't. And with the prolific use of abbreviations and initials through out the forum, searches aren't as fruitful as they could be.

The flip side of that is of course getting hundreds of hits because it is such a commonly used word or term.

When I stumbled on this place I spent a good two weeks just reading the Stickys. There is a lot of great info there. I'm glad that I took the time to read them. Though I have to be honest, there were a few I didn't make to the end of because they were so long. And now that I've got a better understanding of phrases and terms, I'll eventually go back and read them all.

Reading the Stickies is the best place to start, because for a noob, the search function can be very frustrating. You can not search for words that are less than four letters. So its hard to find the thread that you know you read somewhere in the stickies or was it a link from the sticky that talks about a set up for a ENO hammock, because you can't. And with the prolific use of abbreviations and initials through out the forum, searches aren't as fruitful as they could be.

The flip side of that is of course getting hundreds of hits because it is such a commonly used word or term.

Start with the Stickies.

Whoooooo Buddy......corroboration.....substantiation.
Power to and of the Sticky))))))))
Shug O'Stick

While I love the stickies, and have spent many caffiene induces hours int he middle of the nights reading through them. I actually prefer to read the articles. I only wish we had more articles to read. There is some seriously good stuff in there.

*Heaven best have trees, because I plan to lounge for eternity.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. - Mark Twain